ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
I tend to post what I see, no matter the country, no matter the source if I consider it reliable enough.
You don't have to be an expert to make sense of this although having experts in the various fields comment here does help. Too bad Chickenboy does not return. We also have a MD in the front lines, so to speak, as well as an expert in handling the emergency response system.
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In the US, the sense of crisis really began to mature in February. A flood of information was coming out. Most of it alarming.
Knowing the diversity of the Forum community, and in particular the expertise of several members (as Ranger points out), I started this thread on 2/26, just as things were beginning to improve in China and deteriorate in South Korea. In many ways it was dawn.
My three children are in their 20s and haven't been through anything like this before. I wrote them describing some prior events (SARS, H1N1) that might give an idea as to how these things play out. Given the proclivity of the media for sensationalizing and politicizing, I turned to you all. Hard data and the collective input from this community seemed to offer a more mature and reliable measure of what was going on and what might happen.
Weekly and sometimes daily reports to my kids have been mostly taken from information posted here by so many contributors. Because of you, those reports have been consistently more optimistic and realistic than what they'd otherwise be getting through the media and social media. Consequently, they've had a better handle on this, complying assiduously with the regulations but not controlled by the hysteria of social media.
We're still in the thick of it, especially some countries and states and cities, but things are beginning to come into focus, especially in places like Italy, Spain, and much of the US.
Thank you for contributing.
I also pass on things that I find here and elsewhere to people that I have contact with. Some work, some are elderly.
; Julia Child
